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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Google's Larry Page and Wikileaks' infamous editor Julian Assange are among the online personalties to grace this year's Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. The yearly list was released on Thursday Time.This year's list includes a number of people who ...

Any list of the handsets that created the mobile phone industry will undoubtedly be filled with mobiles from Finnish mobile phone company, Nokia. However, for a long time now, Nokia’s power and desirability has been on a slow but steady decline.This was all famously noted in the leaked memo ...

Although Vodacom has won the battle at the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), I think that it will lose the war. It’s fascinating how often the management of organisations get involved in their little skirmishes and lose total sight of the big picture.Although it seems to me that Cell C has ...

Facebook has recently launched a new community site called Facebook Studio – a platform for creative and innovative social media agencies and marketers to come together and share their ideas. The site not only serves as a showcase of the best marketing campaigns on Facebook, but allows the company to ...

Much is made of privacy and security in the digital age and while a lot of it seems overblown there are things to be concerned about. In a worrying development, UK security analysts announced at Where2.0 conference, the discovery that Apple's mobile operating system, iOS 4, used in iPhone 4s ...

While it may seem that its a pre-requisite for every celebrity to be on Twitter in order to further their career, there are actually a surprising number of celebrities who value their privacy and who have no interest in sharing every detail of their lives with their hordes of fans ...

A healthy dose of good news were mixed in with a few worries this week, as Apple reported that it had nearly doubled its quarterly net profit on record iPhone sales but iPad sales dipped, and the company is dealing with the "mother of all backlogs" in meeting demand for ...

Google is cocky enough to initiate the autocomplete search function after you type in just one letter. This is how Google explains the autocomplete function and how it works:As you type, Google's algorithm predicts and displays search queries based on other users' search activities. These searches are algorithmically determined ...

US President Barack Obama paid a campaign-style visit to Facebook headquarters on Wednesday where he urged young voters who backed his historic 2008 election to "double down" in 2012."Don't get frustrated and cynical about our democracy" even though "Lord knows it's frustrating," he pleaded at the tail end of a ...

Curation and aggregation of news on the web is one of the most contentious topics in online media today. On Wednesday, the Washington Post Co. launched a news aggregation website called "Trove" that allows readers to customise the news around their interests."Trove creates a customised news experience that factors in ...